FOR EVERY Australia there is a Kenya. And for every Cricinfo there is a Cricket Web: unfancied, but energetic; small but well-formed; tucked away but with some real gems. Cricket Web sprang to life in October 2001, when it concentrated on news from Australia and New Zealand, but since then it has broadened its horizons and last September underwent a re-design that resulted in a handful of awards. The look is functional rather than flashy but some of the prose is far more than workmanlike. Teams' performances at the World Cup are analysed cogently and sometimes surprisingly ("England come out of it with a lot of credit"), and the mini-features contain some fascinating snippets: the piece on Craig McMillan's diabetes is crying out for expansion. Interactivity is everywhere. One poll reveals that the users' favorite World Cup is 1992 (30%) and their least favorite is 1987 (0.93%). Another page acts as an online interview: if you can persuade the burgeoning Cricket Web team that you're up to scratch, you could be writing for them too. One gripe, the Test ratings, which imaginatively rank teams both at home and away, was over a year out of date at the time of writing. Everything else, though, is up to date - and on the mark.

Originally posted by Rik One gripe, the Test ratings, which imaginatively rank teams both at home and away, was over a year out of date at the time of writing. Everything else, though, is up to date - and on the mark.

I was under the impression that those rankings were up to date as at the end of the Ashes series!

And AFAIK, no Tests have been played since then...

There's WI v Aus, Ban v SA and SL v NZ in progress from this week, and I'll update them after every series concludes, but the buggers are bang up-to-date.

*Sizzles with rage*

I hope that once WCM realise their error, they'll do some furthering of the rankings, and get rid of the bloody awful ICCTC system!